Category Archives: RPPCs

May 21, 2015

Leo Hahn with Miss Baker and Miss K.

By C.E. Ryan
RPPC. Private Collection.

Leo Hahn with Miss Baker and Miss K. RPPC. Private Collection.

Leo with two lady friends IDed on the back. This photo was taken on the 9th or March 1910.

The dark dresses busily contrast so well with the young man’s sober suit. Miss Baker’s wearing a beautifully embroidered dress with a matching filigree necklace, and Miss K is wearing a square flap collar dress that seems to be sheer by the neck. Oh, and the big frou-frou hats with the fluffy feathers, a proper lady’s outfit isn’t complete without one of those!

I wonder if these women were dressed in mourning.

Leonard Hahn was from Montgomery, Kansas and was 25 years old when this photo was taken.

Back of RPPC after the cut.

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May 21, 2015

Who needs a horse when you can ride an ostrich?

By C.E. Ryan
RPPC. Private Collection.

1900s Souvenir photo. RPPC. Private Collection.

A funny souvenir RPPC of a bespectacled man enjoying his ride atop an ostrich at the Cawston Ostrich Farm in California. The other’s reaching up to pet it. The man riding the bird is also carrying a 3a Kodak portable folding camera used to make RPPCs.

Photographer: M.A. Wesner Photo

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May 19, 2015

American Gothic

By C.E. Ryan
The American countryside couple. RPPC. Private Collection.

Circa 1910 American couple. RPPC. Private Collection.

This picture reminds me of the famous painting done twenty years later in 1930. This beautiful couple is on farm ground with a wagon and horse peeking to the left and another wagon, barn and house to the right (I see the barn being red). The man is dressed in a light colored Norfolk suit, and his wife is in a simple white cotton or linen dress with the large buttons going down the skirt. She’s wearing square buckle shoes and he the ever-fashionable Victorian boots with the side buttons.

A beautiful picture of a couple living in the American countryside.

RPPC: AZO 1907-1914

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May 16, 2015

Out of the sewer pipe

By C.E. Ryan

RPPC. Private Collection.

Look at these two lovable dorks (brothers?) with the big smiles, popping out like rabbits out of what looks like an old sewer pipe. Posing silly like this is so much more interesting, isn’t it?

This one got lost inside the vortex that is the USPS. So sad. Maybe someday it’ll eventually make its way to me…

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May 15, 2015

Laundry duty blows -ie- it’s a woman’s job and I shouldn’t have to do this

By C.E. Ryan

“Only 5 more sheets, boys!”  Funny laundry duty RPPC. Private Collection.

Atta girl! This photograph of a grinning lady sitting down on a rocking chair with a baseball bat at the ready, and with her eyes on the two men of the house doing the laundry! Too much!

Now let’s take a moment to appreciate how good we have it today with the wonderful invention that is the laundry machine. And men do more house shores today than they ever did before (yet somehow it’s still a challenge to get dear husband to help folding clothes).

RPPC: AZO 1907-1914

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